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Monday, July 25, 2011

Paper Dolls Guest Designers July 25, 2011

I am Bunny, Jillian ~ The Princess and the Paper’s Mom. I have always loved crafting from a young
age, my love is sewing, I own two embroidery machines, a regular sewing machine
(Jillian’s) and a serger! I love making
purses.

So when Jillian approached me
that she wanted a business to buy an iPod, I bought her a Cricut to make cards
with as my cousin had one and loved it.
Well, should have purchased the iPod ~ LOL! Now we have thousands invested in our new
craft and hobby! In addition to her card
business which was thriving, she needed sentiments she couldn’t find so she
decided to create her own line of stamps this past January at age 11! So the rest is history!

She now owns A Jillian Vance Design and I am
her business manager! We just returned
from CHA and it was so fun having people come up to me and ask if I was Jillian’s
mom. And I introduced myself, Bunny
Vance, to Jinger Adams and she said “Oh, you must be Jillian’s mom, I keep an eye
on her on Facebook!” Oh my land, Jillian
at 12 years old is famous!

So we are
thrilled to be Guest Designers for Paper Dolls: See their Blog here: http://paperdollsblog.typepad.com/main/ Tamara's Blog here: http://happylifecraftywife.typepad.com and Thienly's Blog here: http://modpaperie.blogspot.com/. We look up to these two
fantastically creative gals and then to have THEM ask US ~ Wow! What a great feeling! We waited til after CHA to do this project
but we had in mind what we wanted to do before we left home. The theme for our county 4-H
booth is “4-H, It’s a Green Thing”. So
we will be adding this to our booth at the fair so we decided a Topiary out of
recycled Kraft paper was in order!!!

Jillian and
I made this a team project! We have cut
the wonderful SVG files out of Kraft paper at various sizes: 3.75 and 4.75 inches for the scalloped edge flower

3.0 and 3.5 inches
for the carnation

2.5 and 3.75 inches
for the smooth edge flower

We wanted a mixture of larger and smaller flowers.

Then Jillian
used Tim Holtz Distress Inks to ink them to the colors we wanted: the Golden
ones are Spice Marmalade, Pink ones are the NEW Distress Stain in Picket Fence
(it is a pigment based stain and is more opaque to give you a brighter color) under
Worn Lipstick and the Purple flowers are Distress Stain in Picket Fence with
Dusty Concord on top. Jillian used Forest Moss Distress Stain for the leaves! So wish we had the other colors in Stain, it is so quick to apply! Gives them all a
very vintage shaded look! LOVE, LOVE,
LOVE the new Picket Fence Distress Stain!

Then we used
corsage pins with tear drop pearls to pin through the base of the flower and
leaf (cut from a random cartridge) added some hand dyed by Jillian seam binding
to give the softness and flair it needed!
By accident, I wound the ribbon around a Jelly Roll pen to dry it as
otherwise I burn my fingers! That is
what gave it the bouncy curly look! The butterfly was cut from Home Accents Cricut
cartridge and of course “everything is better with Stickles!!!” according to
Jillian. The tin bucket came from IKEA.

Close up ~ Scalloped Rose.

Close up ~ Carnation

We want to
thank Thienly and Tamara for asking us, it has been a pleasure and tons of fun!
Please go to Paper Doll's blog for this weeks Challenge!!! http://paperdollsblog.typepad.com/main/

Oh my!!! Your project is absolutely fabulous!!! I made some topiaries a couple months ago, and they are pretty, but WOW yours are just perfect!!! I love everything about them! Happy to be a guest designer at the PD blog with you this week. Hugs, Melaniehttp://inlovewithabug.blogspot.com

Very beautiful project!! That must have taken quite a long time to make!! That would be so lovely at a wedding on tables as centerpieces!! Or creating cute pastel color ones for baby showers. Very very amazing!! Thanks for sharing it with us!!

Just love this topiary and it has all the colors I love! especially the purple and I want to make this in the future...lol...I became a follower of both blogs...awesome and will be definitely checking in more often...the stamps I love and the wallet in the future keeps getting smaller...lol...thanks for sharing! :)